The music game, which is currently the most downloaded app overall, was created by Tapulous and is compatible with the iPod Touch, iPhone and Android.Essentially, this game is like Guitar Hero for your fingers. You pick a song from your favorite artist and then watch as the little lights come shooting toward you. As long as you tap them at the right time, you’re in the clear, but if you can’t keep up and tap with multiple fingers and at various intervals, there’s no hope for you.Currently 88 million users are using the clever little app, trying to see if they can tap skillfully along ...
At the entrance, each visitor is given a specially adapted iPod. Interactive quizzes, video footage and images that match up to the items on display are used to tell the stories.The first sections explore the life of a boy born as Georges Remi. Where possible, things are told in his own words. "I had an unremarkable childhood. It was not a happy nor a sad childhood, just rather dreary," the voice from the grave says.His parents would keep him quiet by letting him draw to his heart's content and he later got work designing advertisements.At the age of 24, Herge (his initials - GR - ...
And Neil Young says his concern was shared by the man who brought the world the ipod: Apple founder Steve Jobs.“Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music, and his legacy is tremendous, [but] when he went home he listened to vinyl,” says Mr Young.And the better quality of vinyl is one reason why the format is making a small, but noticeable comeback.“The better your stereo system the better your vinyl will sound. But as a general rule vinyl always sounds much warmer and more immediate than CDs or mp3s,” says Dorlay Bray, of Southbound Records.Neil Young maintains he is not anti digital, ...
The next flagship smartphones from Samsung and Apple, the Galaxy S III and the iPhone 5, will both be waterproof via Liquipel technology, according to a new rumor.The rumor came from a source of the site Today’s iPhone who reportedly told the publication that the Galaxy S III and the iPhone 5 will both integrate Liquipel technology straight from the factories.The Galaxy S III and the iPhone 5 “both will have had liquipel treatment as they’ll be altering the wording on insurance,” Today’s iPhone quotes its source as saying.Although the publication does remind people to take this ...
iPhoneography course will be entirely devoted to instructing students in how to take better photographs on an iPhone. By Kathleen Davis on February 3, 2012Related Tags:NewsiPhoneTweetEnlargeNo wonder the value of a college education has been debated so much recently. With Rutgers offering a course on Beyoncé, and now news of London's Kensington and Chelsea College adding a class called “ iPhoneography,” teaching the next generation how to use their iPhone to take better photos.The course will be a first of its kind, and will instruct students on using a range of apps to create images. ...
A 14-year-old boy was arrested for theft after police discovered the iPhone he allegedly stole from a woman in Harlem in his underwear.Officers were on foot patrol Friday afternoon near the Jefferson Houses when they saw the suspect grab the phone from a 24-year-old woman and run off.The cops called for backup and broadcast a description of the suspect. One of the officers responding to the backup call used the "Find My iPhone" app to track the victim's phone to two different places.At the second location, officers stopped a person who closely matched the description of the suspect. ...
The price of the SIM Free/Unlocked version of the Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone smartphone has dropped to £360 at Ebuyer, a 10 per cent shortly after the handset officially went on sale.It is not known whether the price drop could be due to the newly launched US-bound Lumia 900 which has a bigger screen and a front facing camera.We did notice however that the cheaper Nokia Lumia 710 was on sale at O2 for just under £200 making it the cheapest Windows Phone Mango handset on the market; that is a third off its original suggested retail price (although the one from O2 is locked).The Lumia 800 ...
And it was asking, according to the document Mueller discovered, 2.25% of Apple's iPhone sales up to and including the iPhone 4.According to Apple's SEC filings for fiscal years 2007 through 2011, revenue from those iPhone sales totaled $92.64 billion, of which Motorola seemed to be demanding a $2.08 billion cut.It's unclear, says Mueller, whether this covered just one patent or all of Motorla's so-called standards-essential intellectual property but, he writes, "the amount still seems excessive to me."Apple apparently agrees, and it has filed a series of discovery motions aimed at ...
The NFL has released the official Super Bowl XLVI game program for the iPad. The iOS version is essentially the same program you would receive if you attended the Super Bowl, but with extra digital content. The app highlights the Giants’ and Patriots’ road to the championship, important moments of the 2011 season, and features over 400MB of exclusive NFL video.This app is for diehard football fans who can't attend the big game, and requires 1 GB of hard drive space to download. Make sure you are hooked up to a high speed WiFi connection if you plan to directly download it to your ...
... quad-core processors, keyboard docks, and a handful of dongles at customers will give their tablets a fundamental advantage over Apple and the iPad.But how many times have you seen someone make a video call from a tablet? How often have you seen someone hook up a tablet to a 50-inch high-definition TV and use it to watch films and play games? How many people do you know who have attached a keyboard to their tablet and completely ditched their laptop?I've used virtually all the main tablets over the past two years and I've rarely done any of those things with them. Nor have any of my ...
Apple has long been favored by musicians, and the iPad provides the best of two worlds. It gives an iPod Touch/iPhone-compatible device with a thriving app store, and it's a form factor ideal for musicians where a laptop might be too big and clumsy. In just two years on the market, the iPad has not just been embraced by the music industry, it's been bear-hugged. Here are a dozen of the best uses and applications of the iPad for the professional musician.1 Numark iDJ ProDJ's like to use MacBooks for controlling the mix, but iPads are coming on strong thanks to solutions like this. iDJ Pro is a ...
According to Focus Taiwan, “Apple Inc. will hold a media event next month and is scheduled to release its new generation tablet device — the iPad 3 — on March 29, according to local media reports.” The article goes on to explain that “Citing market sources, the reports said local electronics makers in the iPad 3 supply chain has been delivering various high-end components since the last quarter of 2011 and that the tablet is likely to hit the market.”The piece also mentions that there is a great deal of activity in the Asian stock markets, with investors buying up components ...